Private John De La Cruz was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1898, in Liverpool, the son of Domingo, a Filipino seaman, and Isabella De La Cruz (née Galloway).
De La Cruz died on 26 September 1917, in the Battle of Polygon Wood during the Ypres Offensive, while serving with the 4th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- De La Cruz, John, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 August 2013.